Sisteron returns in Paris-Nice

Sisteron returns in Paris-Nice

One of the traditional finishes in cycling, Sisteron welcomed the bunch Thursday afternoon. Dubbed the “Gateway to Provence” and boasting a stunning medieval fortress like something out of a “Lord of the Rings” movie, Sisteron featured at the “Race to the Sun” for the first time in six years, in the meantime having hosted a Tour de France stage at the end of which Julian Alaphilipped dressed the yellow jersey.

The four classified climbs spread on the course didn’t seem to bother the peloton, who did their homework from the beginning, allowing only four riders in the breakaway and making sure their maximum gap remained around the three-minute mark. The quartet were easily overhauled and at the end of the day we had the last bunch sprint of the week, won by Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike).

Remco Evenepoel finished safely in the bunch and retained his fifth place on the general classification, just 30 seconds from the yellow jersey. The Belgian Champion will now turn his attention to the complicated stage six, the longest of the week, which will comprise five classified ascents, including one averaging 10.3%, coming inside the final 30 kilometers, just before the intermediate sprint.

 

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Race details

1 Olav Kooij
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
4:23:44
2 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
0:00
3 Pascal Ackermann
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
4 Sam Bennett
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:00
5 Danny van Poppel
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
6 Tobias Lund Andresen
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:00
7 Matteo Trentin
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:00
8 Laurence Pithie
Groupama - FDJ
0:00
9 Madis Mihkels
Intermarché - Wanty
0:00
10 Dušan Rajović
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
16 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
48 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
63 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
73 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
83 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
98 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
130 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
4:10
1 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
17:38:48
2 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
0:13
3 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
0:27
4 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:29
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:30
6 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
0:40
7 Chris Harper
Team Jayco AlUla
0:46
8 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:52
9 Rigoberto Urán Urán
EF Education - EasyPost
0:54
10 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:02
14 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
1:08
32 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
8:24
35 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
9:54
53 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
17:20
55 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
17:46
99 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
29:14
1 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
60 pt
2 Laurence Pithie
Groupama - FDJ
56 pt
3 Olav Kooij
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
50 pt
4 Danny van Poppel
BORA - hansgrohe
44 pt
5 Sam Bennett
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
32 pt
6 Pascal Ackermann
Israel - Premier Tech
28 pt
7 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
24 pt
8 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
24 pt
9 Matteo Trentin
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
24 pt
10 Madis Mihkels
Intermarché - Wanty
24 pt
1 Mathieu Burgaudeau
TotalEnergies
28 pt
2 Christian Scaroni
Astana Qazaqstan Team
21 pt
3 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
20 pt
4 Pierre Latour
TotalEnergies
19 pt
5 Jonas Rutsch
EF Education - EasyPost
13 pt
6 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
11 pt
7 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
8 pt
8 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Lotto Dstny
6 pt
9 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
5 pt
10 Bob Jungels
BORA - hansgrohe
5 pt
1 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
17:38:48
2 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
0:13
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:30
4 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:52
5 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:02
6 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
1:08
7 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
1:27
8 Ewen Costiou
2:00
9 Finn Fisher-Black
UAE Team Emirates
11:24
10 Laurence Pithie
Groupama - FDJ
12:13
1 INEOS Grenadiers 52:59:20
2 UAE Team Emirates 0:13
3 Soudal Quick-Step 2:22
4 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 2:35
5 BORA - hansgrohe 9:07
6 Bahrain - Victorious 11:04
7 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 13:41
8 Team Jayco AlUla 15:12
9 Movistar Team 19:26
10 Astana Qazaqstan Team 21:14

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